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Garlic Variety Selector: Which One For Your Garden
Every recommendation below traces back to our full Garlic varieties comparison — this page is the fast route to one answer for your specific situation, no clicking through required.
If: Long storage and a proven track record
Germidour or Solent WightAGM
Both are AGM softnecks bred for reliability and keeping quality, and both keep well beyond what any hardneck here manages.
If: Flavour and resilience on an exposed, harsh site
Lautrec Wight
Hardneck types are more broadly cold-hardy and suited to being grown throughout the UK, not just its milder counties, so this trades storage life for that broader cold tolerance, plus scapes as a bonus harvest. No hardneck variety, including this one, currently carries the RHS AGM.
If: Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice
CristoAGM
It's the only variety that combines AGM status, strong reported hardiness, reliable storage, and flexibility to plant in either autumn or spring: the safest single pick if you only want to grow one thing and trust it to work.
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